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December 4, 2025 UT · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Fossil Rock Resources, LLC. · Struck by flying object

Removed a tee on a 2" aqua line. Line sprung back at the injured breaking / chipping a front tooth.

June 12, 2025 UT · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Fossil Rock Resources, LLC. · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was carrying 3 drill steels bound together, as they walked through a known slick area, they transitioned between solid floor and mud which caused them to slip and fall with steels in hand, they reached back with right hand to break their fall, crushing right pinky finger.

May 25, 2025 UT · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Fossil Rock Resources, LLC. · Struck by falling object

Employee was cleaning up a belt splice area and employee was lowering the rollout of the belt core. Hook came off end and the core fell which caused injury to their pinky finger

December 8, 2024 UT · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Fossil Rock Resources, LLC. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Unloading Richwood impact clusters off the cookie sheet of an M2 shield hauler. Unloaded two cluster without incident where one man would push and the other would pull. The injured pulled the third cluster into a stationary cluster, smashing EE's finger between the two. EE sustained a small fracture in the tip of EE's right middle finger. The wound required 8 sutures to close.

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